On the TV documentary "Biography" as I recall, he was described as a gentle giant who had no enemies and everyone liked. He could consume some of the hugest quantities of alchohol due to his condition and not become incapacitated. There are stories of him drinking dozens of bottles of beer in one sitting many, many times.

They do relate his flipping a car over after one of his many drinking nights, but I believe it was in response to a group of men in the car making fun of his size, which he was extremly sensitive of.

He was a fascinating story. Came from Podunk France and returned there to die. In between he made Vince McMahon famous and apparently made friends and gained respect from all he ever met.

Alot of sadness in his greatness and fame.

Subby, if you are not trying to be "funny" in your post, you are a true 'Tard. A quote from the Robin Wright in the article.

"He was such a sweetheart... He'd ingest small horses and a side of mashed potatoes and he would sort of wash it down with a case of wine and about six bottles of cognac."

Sun God:Maybe if people would stop saying "retarded" and "biatch" and not say things in ALL CAPS! the world would be more pleasant...

Vocabulary. I'm not dictating you should learn one, but it would be nice to know someone who has one.

No, it wouldn't. Complaints are how stupid people often find out they are stupid, and words and writing techniques that evoke emotion from plebes *ahem* can be useful cage rattlers and therefore appropriate. Less stupid = more pleasant. If you're serious about a pleasant earth you could take particular note of this fact.

I'm sorry you don't know anyone with a vocabulary. How do your friends speak? Oh. Wait. Sorry. Maybe get out more. Good luck.

Sun God:Dr. Picklebacon: Andre the Giant is a drinking legend and this slander upon his name, and here of all places, is an outrage.

Good job.

Thanks SG. This is what I meant, and what I should have said in the first place. I was driven to all caps and the word retard by rage. Rage I'm telling you! Judge my verbiage if you will, I guess I don't blame you, but I'm glad we can agree there are larger issues at play here.

My personal experiences recently with professional wrestlers has shown the adage about them being tigers in the ring and pussycats out of it may well be true. All the ones I've met were absolutely awesome!

swahnhennessy:It's not all that funny, but most of you completely miss the joke, despite it being obvious.

/not Subby

Wait, I've got this one.

Robin Wright Penn is actually referring to Andre the Giant as baked goods, as indicated by the quotes around the word "pain", which is French for bread, which is also the group that sang the song "I Wanna Make It With You", that was used in her wedding in the soap opera Santa Barbara with Cruz Castillo who was played by A Martinez, who also appeared in LA Law which aired on NBC, which also aired The West Wing, which featured Oliver Platt, who also starred in the movie Flatliners with, wait for it...

Billy Balwin. Who also appeared in Dirty Sexy Money alongside Donald Sutherland, whose son Kiefer was also in Flatliners along with Kevin Bacon.

So you see? That's the joke. Robin Wright was using Andre The Giant to explain her relation to Kevin Bacon... oh, man. That headline TOTALLY makes sense now.

Andre was retired from wrestling at this point in his career specifically because of the pain he was in. He desperately needed very expensive surgery, but was adamantly against it to which there are several unclear reasons.

After this movie became a hit, and people started talking about Andre, Vince McMahon Jr decided he needed Andre back in the ring. Vince offered to pay for Andre's surgery to get him back in the ring for a match with Hulk Hogan. Thus Wrestlemania III

SharkTrager:Callahan'sMartiniShaker: I do not think this headline means what subby thinks it does.

I do not think you understand what the purpose of quotation marks around "pain" would be.

/not subby

No I got it - i just thought that perhaps the implied slander to Robin Wright was unnecessary. There were better plays on words, or even that word, to be had without calling Buttercup a biatch. Dread Pirate Roberts wouldn't approve.